RAMA KOTTU

Successful Senior IT Consultant offering 8+ years of experience in demanding environments focused on producing cutting-edge designs for E-Commerce B2B and B2C applications. Skilled in directing development with creative and performance-oriented approach. Well-organized and customer-focused with proven skills in project management and team leadership.

• Around 8+ years of experience in the development of web applications using Java/J2EE and SAP Commerce Cloud. Certified professional from SAP Commerce Cloud v2105. Strong SAP Commerce development experience in B2C and B2B accelerators.
• Hands-on experience with SAP Commerce integrations such as SCPI, CDC[Gigya], CCV2, SAP ERP, Adobe, SOLR, Redis, PriceFx, Boomi, Solace systems. Experience in integration with Micro services and SAP Commerce.
• Experience in KIMA integration with SAP Commerce.
• Strong development skills in customization for Inbound and Outbound API’s using SAP Cloud Platform Integration (SCPI).
• Rich experience in Payment gateway integrations [chase, PayPal, amazon], Hosted Order pages [HOP] integrations, Push notifications customization, QR code generations.
• Experience in SAP commerce version migrations from v4.7 to 2211.
• Experience in Java, Spring [Spring Core, Spring AOP, Spring Web MVC, Spring DAO, Spring ORM, Spring context, and Spring Web flow], Spring Boot, Spring Security, Experience in SOAP and Restful web services.
• Good understanding of Java/J2EE and Gang of Four Design Patterns like Factory, Singleton, Strategy, MVC, DAO, VO’s, and BO’s, Business Delegate, Composite Entity, Data Access Object, Front Controller Pattern, Intercepting Filter, Service Locator, Transfer Object Pattern. Good knowledge of creating jobs for continuous integration using Jenkins, Azure cloud.
• Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies and having working experience in Scrum-agile methodology. Good experience on writing Jira stories and preparing functional designs.

• Certified professional from SAP Commerce Cloud v2105.

Project#1

Title  : DSM

Role : Application Development Team Lead.

Frameworks  : SAP Commerce cloud 2205, SCPI, Java/J2EE, Spring, GIT, Bitbucket and CCV2.

Project Description:

DSM delivers innovative business solutions for human nutrition, animal nutrition, personal care and aroma, medical services, green products and applications and new mobility and connectivity.

Responsibilities:

• Key player in designing and implementing requirements.
• Created the Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) feature, enabling users to upload a PDF document and seamlessly convert it into a SAP Commerce order without following the usual e-commerce order placement steps (Add to Cart, Checkout, order placement).
• Customizing the integration of inbound and outbound SAP Commerce APIs with SCPI.
• Developed and customized Solr indexes for Order, Order Entry, Consignment, and Invoice item models.
• Integrated CDC [Gigya] for Authentication and Authorization functionalities.
• Integrated Chase Payment method.
• Participated in the code review process.
• Conducted daily build activities in the CCV2 environment and participated in production deployment and cutover activities.
• Engaged in Agile methodology.

Project#2

Title : Heineken

Role : Application Development Senior Analyst.

Frameworks : SAP Commerce cloud 1905, SCPI, Java/J2EE, Spring, GIT, Bamboo and CCV2.

Project Description:

This project involves around implementing a B2B solution using SAP Commerce Cloud for Heineken, specifically tailored to the requirements of the alcohol industry. This project is built on SAP Commerce headless e-commerce solution.

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience in a headless architecture project.
• Created multiple OCC services for products, promotions, WCMS Components, carts, order placements and other features.
• SAP Commerce Integrations with SAP ECC, Redis, PriceFx, Boomi, Solace, Adobe [For homepage], Data Interface API (DI API).
• Development of stories involving data modelling, promotions, WCMS, SOLR, cronjobs, groovy scripting, and Impex.
• Extensive experience in multi-country rollouts.
• Creating High-Level Designs (HLD), sprint story solutioning, and refining sprint stories.
• Developed OCC architecture design classed (controllers, facades, services, layers, data objects, dataWsDTO objects, populators and DAO).

Project#3

Title : Western Digital B2C commerce.

Role : Application Development Senior Analyst.

Environments : Hybris 1808, Java/J2EE, Spring, GIT, Bitbucket

Project Description:

Western Digital Corporation (abbreviated WDC, commonly known as Western Digital and abbreviated WD) is an American computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company. It designs, manufactures, and sells data technology products, including storage devices, data centre systems and cloud storage services. This project was built from scratch utilizing SAP Commerce.

Responsibilities:

• Configured the base site, base store, content, product catalogs, and initial data system setups.
• Developed WCMS components, CMS Pages, and Page Templates.
• Implemented key SAP Commerce features including add to cart, cart calculations, and check out summary.
• Exposed APIs with Adobe to consume homepage components.
• Created cronjobs for abandoned carts, order status updates, and product reviews and rating updates.

Project#4

Title : Hindustan Unilever Limited (UL-B2C)

Role : Application Development Analyst.

Environments : Hybris 6.7, Java/J2EE, Spring, Oracle, and SAP Hana

Project Description:

Hindustan Unilever Limited is an Indian consumer goods company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is a subsidiary of Unilever, an Anglo-Dutch company. Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents, personal care products, water purifiers and other fast-moving consumer goods. Accenture provided a solution to sell their products on online e- commerce platform.

Responsibilities:

• Played a pivotal role in the DevOps team, overseeing operational activities such as incident management, production deployments, and monitoring of production features.
• Customized promotion types and introduced Discount Rows in place of traditional promotions.
• Implemented solr indexing and searching configurations.
• Automated cronjobs for tasks such as price row creation, product creation, and promotion creation.
• Implemented automated cronjobs for monitoring important production processes, including cronjob status, customer email failures, and weekly flash sale promotion creations.
• Contributed to the migration of Hybris from version 6.1 to 6.7.
• Participated in Hana migration.
• Successfully integrated third-party tools such as Darwin, GoDB, Redis, and MuleSoft.